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Estimating the Effect of School Time of Instruction on Student Achievements
Lavy, Victor - 2001
students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123726
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Sixty years after the magic carpet ride : the long-run effect of the early childhood environment on social and economic outcomes
Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835768
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Sixty years after the magic carpet ride : the long-run effect of the early childhood environment on social and economic outcomes
Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, Marco Daniele - In: The review of economic studies 78 (2011) 3, pp. 938-973
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234529
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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003692561
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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride : The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes
Gould, Eric D. - 2009
almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463763
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327826
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How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in returns? : evidence from an unusual pay reform in Israel's kibbutzim
Abramitzky, Ran; Lavy, Victor - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157564
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How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in returns? : evidence from an unusual pay reform in Islrael's kibbutzim
Abramitzky, Ran; Lavy, Victor - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514079
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119